This is a question asked many times. You have your degree(s), you have a good amount of experience, yet you aren’t where you want to be in your career. Whether you’re working as an intern, freelancer or at various odd jobs trying to make ends meet, it just might not be enough. To make it worse, you are reminded of this every time your paycheck lands in your hands.
What to do? What can you even do?
In an article titled, “The Good Guide to Hustlin’: Advice for the Underemployed,” Nona Willis Aronowitz shares a number of valuable tips to get you to the point where you feel your work as a full-time employee (finally) is validated, with your very own business card and as Aronowitz notes, “a feeling of security.”
Here are a few:
- Embrace the second shift: Put in that extra time and work hard
- Make friends at work: a big factor in getting hired can be a product of the relationships you build. Create allies and internal references.
- Identify a few things that your coworkers don’t know, then learn them: How cool is it to be able to do things that the majority cannot? Absorb your industry, learn about new office tools and products. Eventually you will become the go-to person.
Until the economy improves and we can easily switch careers or get promoted quickly, build the one brand that everyone would want to buy: YOU.
Read more tips here.
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